XSD - Miscellaneous Data Types

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XSD has a few other important data types, such as Boolean, binary, and anyURI.

<xs:boolean> data type

The <xs:boolean> data type is used to represent true, false, 1 (for true) or 0 (for false) value.

<xs:boolean> Example

Element declaration in XSD −

<xs:element name = "pass" type = "xs:boolean"/>

Element usage in XML −

<pass>false</pass>

Binary data types

The Binary data types are used to represent binary values. Two binary types are common in use.

• base64Binary − represents base64 encoded binary data

• hexBinary − represents hexadecimal encoded binary data

<xs:hexbinary> Example

Element declaration in XSD −

<xs:element name = "blob" type = "xs:hexBinary"/>

Element usage in XML −

<blob>9FEEF</blob>

<xs:anyURI> data type

The <xs:anyURI> data type is used to represent URI.

<xs:anyURI> Example

Element declaration in XSD −

<xs:attribute name = "resource" type = "xs:anyURI"/>

Element usage in XML −

<image resource = "http://www.tutorialspoint.com/images/smiley.jpg" />

Numeric Data Types

Following is the list of commonly used numeric data types.

Restrictions

Following types of restrictions can be used with Miscellaneous data types except on boolean data type −

• enumeration
• length
• maxLength
• minLength
• pattern
• whiteSpace